The standard prescribes guidelines for the present and possible future uses of the solid wastes generated in an integrated steel plant. Amount of generation and characteristics of these wastes have also been given. This standard does not cover wastes generated at mines and collieries. It also does not include spillage at various stages of processing which is recycled into the system, for example, dust at coke ovens, sinter plant, etc, and also wastes generated in small quantities like dust from open hearth furnaces and sludge from water softening plants.